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Re: Six down- four to go to!!: 4 faction slots left

Originally Posted by bobbin

I've given you a tiny helping hand as I've reuploaded my sig in png forum, the old jpg one had suffered some form of compression when it was uploaded which meant you had no change of getting anything from it.

Thanks bobbin!

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Re: Six down- four to go to!!: 4 faction slots left

Originally Posted by Arjos

I'm amazed that people can say it's ..., all I see is a black patch and some yellow lines on a reddish background XD

Look at the background of Bobbin's EB Member signature right below the Occultus one. It is the same color and the pattern to the left of the word "Seven" looks very similar to the left side of his Occultus sig only rotated slightly.

Moreover, if this connection is correct, the section to the left of the word "Year" looks exactly like the top of several depictions of the Silphium plant which appears on many coins from Cyrene.

Re: Six down- four to go to!!: 4 faction slots left

Originally Posted by Moros

Yeah cause it definately looks the same...

No, but it has at least a similar font and colour. Actually I also thought there is a connection between both pictures but it does not percectly fit each other. I'm still pretty sure there is at least one horse on the picture.

Re: Six down- four to go to!!: 4 faction slots left

I'm speaking about font because I lacked another word in english for the... general theme how the lines are made? Sorry for the confusion. I'd not state they are the same in this regard anymore though.

Originally Posted by bobbin

Actually it was, most people kept on thinking any Indian faction was impossible due to culture limits our that the only faction there had to be the Mauryans, hence why it was a faction that barley anyone guessed.

I see your reasoning but at least XSamartan said otherwise as far as I understand his posting:

Re: Six down- four to go to!!: 4 faction slots left

Palmyra?

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Re: Six down- four to go to!!: 4 faction slots left

I'm going on the colors and say that it's a new Arabic faction so Saba has someone to contend with. Maybe Hadramaut, Qataban or Ma'in? The symbol is a life tree of some sort maybe?

I think they were ruled out on the grounds of being too similar to Saba.

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Re: Six down- four to go to!!: 4 faction slots left

Did you think was any connection to the Boswellia sacra, in other ways here i found a interesting history of use of the frankincense

Spoiler Alert, click show to read:

The lost city of Ubar, sometimes identified with Irem in what is now the town of Shisr in Oman, is believed to have been a centre of the frankincense trade along the recently rediscovered "Incense Road". Ubar was rediscovered in the early 1990s and is now under archaeological excavation.

Re: Six down- four to go to!!: 4 faction slots left

Damn it. I thought the last one was an ox and it indicated an Indian faction, but the whole "no Mauryan" thing diverted me. This time I've got no bloody idea at all.

I imagine it will be somebody obscure, that very casual readers of history like me have never heard of, because all the obvious ones have been suggested by now. Somebody whose archaeological/historical information is greater than their fame, so the EB team have heard of them but us plebs haven't.

Of course Ubar would bring a whole new meaning to "Occultus Faction". :)

Re: Six down- four to go to!!: 4 faction slots left

Did you think was any connection to the Boswellia sacra, in other ways here i found a interesting history of use of the frankincense

Spoiler Alert, click show to read:

The lost city of Ubar, sometimes identified with Irem in what is now the town of Shisr in Oman, is believed to have been a centre of the frankincense trade along the recently rediscovered "Incense Road". Ubar was rediscovered in the early 1990s and is now under archaeological excavation.

Ubar is not discovered at the small site at Shisr, which is no more than a small stop. It has some walls and towers and some minor structures within but it really is small. A little later during the same investigation (they used sattelite image analyses to find the sites) they actually found a bigger one a little north and west of modern day Salalah, which appears to have been called Saffara. This will most likely be the local province capital. However this region is one of those places we virtually have no information about. It's the last place where you'll have to look for a faction sadly. Probably will not even get a unique unit.